2011.06.20 Meeting Notes

Location

Wickson Hall, Room 1017, UC Davis

Project Reports

Installfests —
The last IF was held on Saturday at N Street Cohousing. Thanks to Alex Mandel
for running the IF, and Dan Fiske for providing the venue. 3-4 people RSVP'd.
One had a server, but decided to leave it at home. Another brought a
server that the IF volunteers decided was not worth working on; cheaper
to replace with a more modern system. Mostly people worked on their own
stuff, and didn't need help. Around 10 on-lookers came to watch.

Hands-On Demo —
None scheduled. The next will probably be in September,
for this year's Software Freedom Day. We should sign up soon, so we can
receive some free discs and other goodies.

Other Business

News —

Announcement of upcoming events:

July's LUGOD will be "Running Databases with Appaserver", at the public library.

Becoming a UC Davis "Campus Affiliate Group" —
Alex Mandel reminds us it will cost $30/year to be an affiliate group,
and that LUGOD members Bill Broadley and Scott Miller, who work at UC Davis,
have offered to be our liasons. Alex points out that being an affiliate group
would have simplified getting tonight's venue (Wickson Hall).

Financial Report —
$27.00 in donations were received. FYI: in two days, our tax-exempt status
request with the CA FTB will have been filed 90 days ago.

Presentation

Bryan Bell, computer science graduate student at CSU Sacramento, and
graduate intern at Intel, discussed the Haskell programming language and
LLVM (low-level virtual machine), and how they are used to create
compilers.